Physician/Dermatologist
Centurion, 1889–1924
Born 28 August 1843 in Fort Moultrie, South Carolina
Died 24 January 1924 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Gate of Heaven Cemetery
, Hawthorne, New York
Proposed by Fessenden Nott Otis and Eastman Johnson
Elected 7 December 1889 at age forty-six
Archivist’s Note: Father of Edward L. Keyes
Century Memorial
Edward Lawrence Keyes was one of the Century’s few surviving soldiers of the Civil War, in which he served on the staff of his father, a general of the Army of the Potomac, in the campaigns of 1863. He had gone directly from college to the army, and began the study of medicine only when the war was over. In the specialty to which he applied his study Dr. Keyes immediately took the highest rank in the profession. His course of lectures on dermatology was the first ever delivered on that subject in the United States; he revolutionized the medical use of mercury, and his published lectures and writings are standard works in his branch of medicine.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1925 Century Association Yearbook
